Walking around My Neighborhood This Morning

Our house with our wonderful hydrangea bushes.

Photos © 2025 mae sander

 

Celebrating Elaine’s Birthday and Other Amusing Events

 Birthday Dinner

Cold cuts and salad.

Elaine on her birthday. 

The family.

Mocha cake from the bakery Tous les Jours.

The Bakery

We love the pastry at Tous les Jours, and selected several of them to take home for lunch.

Art Work Viewed Today

Murals Near the Bakery

To share with Sami’s murals.

Art Parody in the New York Times

Source: “Sketched Out: An Illustrator Confronts his Fears about AI Art”

Amsterdam on a Postcard

Thank you, Alice!

Earlier this week: Lunch at the Blue Whale Cafe

A Blue Whale for Eileen’s Critters

In Our Garden

Shared with Sunday Salon at Readerbuzz, Eileen’s Critters, and Sami’s Murals. 

Photos © 2025 mae sander.

Weekend at Home

 The Potters’ Guild Sale

Saturday morning: the June sale of the Ann Arbor Potters’ Guild.

Our favorite artist: Maki Lin.

We bought two new plates (similar to ones we have already).

Along the Huron River

We don’t understand this “sculpture” — here’s another one in a different park.
Anyone know its real purpose?

Along the path is a plaza celebrating the history of local women in sports for the past 50 years.

We always enjoy watching the canoes and kayaks making their way down the Huron River.

Beautiful Weather But with Some Smoke

In spite of poor air quality, we have been eating in our garden.

Contemplation: “A Child’s Garden of Verses”

The Swing

HOW do you like to go up in a swing,

Up in the air so blue?

Oh, I do think it the pleasantest thing

Ever a child can do!

Up in the air and over the wall,

Till I can see so wide,

Rivers and trees and cattle and all

Over the countryside—

Till I look down on the garden green,

Down on the roof so brown—

Up in the air I go flying again,

Up in the air and down!”

Blog post © 2025 mae sander

Gardens

 Our Garden is Changing

Thursday: gardening truck delivers plants…

… but almost the first hole the workers dig turns out to be a disaster for our cable for TV/phone/internet.
All the plants went back into the truck while we were hoping for a solution.
Remarkably, ATT came out and replaced the cable within two hours!!!

Friday: With Cable Fixed, Gardening Happens.

Some new and some old plants at the corner of the front yard.

New plants both in the front and back yards.

Here is one of our patio plants from a few weeks ago. I included my Rainbow Croc for fun.

Our rhododendron is still covered with blossoms.
It was already flourishing when we moved into the house.

A New Rain Garden in the Park

In the Neighborhood

In every garden we see squirrels.

Our neighbor’s planter boxes.

Blog post © 2025 mae sander.

Shared with weekend blog parties.